[x265] FR: Postpone Windows 10 update reboots during encodes by signaling "busy"?

[Michael Lackner]

I'm also interested actually, because I've had this happen to me just a few days ago,
losing almost a day of work because of Windows 10 rebooting in the middle of the night...

This is an issue for people who don't have administrative privileges on their machines to
stop Windows 10 from doing this.

On 06/25/2018 09:03 AM, Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer wrote:
> No opinion yet?
> 
> 
> Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer schrieb am 13.06.2018 um 08:35:
>> Request by 'Stereodude' in the doom9 forum:
>>
>> https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1844407#post1844407
>>
>> +----
>> Is there any way to x265 to let Windows know that it's busy encoding to prevent a
>> Windows update from rebooting the PC during an encode? I thought I read before that
>> there's a way for an application to let the OS know it's "busy" so that it won't reboot
>> while the application is crunching away.
>>
>> Currently Windows 10 will happily reboot mid x264 or x265 encode even if the CPU is
>> pegged at 100%.
>> +----
>>
>> I wonder if you could use the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate function to postpone it:
>>
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376877%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>>
>> And which window handle would you use for a CLI application?